Barr Ganuisg
Dun (Prehistoric)
Site Name Barr Ganuisg
Classification Dun (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Kilfinan
Canmore ID 39968
Site Number NR98SW 10
NGR NR 9289 8080
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR98SW 10 9289 8080.
NR 930 811. The hillock situated 450' OD, two miles N of Kilfinan church on the main road and 1/4 mile W, has been fortified. Little trace of the walls remain, and no walling is visible to the S where the entrance may have been. The area enclosed measures 66' N-S by 38' transversely within a 28' thick wall.
Cowal Archaeology Soc 1964.
NS 9289 8080; The remains of an oval dun measuring c.23m N-S by c.16m internally. Walling exists on the N and E, and measures up to 2.8m in width with occasional single outer facing-stones. On the W and S there are little or no remains. No entrance is visible and the rocky interior is featureless.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (D W R) 9 November 1972.
As described in the field report of 9 November 1972.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (T R G) 6 October 1976.
Field Visit (June 1985)
The slight remains of a dun measuring about 18m by 14m internally occupy the summit of a rocky massif 550m ESE of Barr Ganuisg. The dun wall, which incorporates several large blocks of stone that appear to have been deliberately moved into position, has been reduced to a low bank of rubble barring access to the summit from the N and E. The entrance probably lay at one or other end of the surviving wall (Cowal Archaeol Soc 1964; two large piles of stones some 200m to the S are more probably dumps of stone for wall-building than prehistoric burial-cairns).
Visited June 1985
RCAHMS 1988
Measured Survey (3 June 1985)
RCAHMS surveyed Barr Ganuisg dun on 03 June 1985 with plane-table and alidade producing a plan at a scale of 1:100. The plan of the dun was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1988a, 174).
Measured Survey (3 June 1985)
RCAHMS surveyed Barr Ganuisg dun on 03 June 1985 with plane-table and alidade producing a plan at a scale of 1:100. The plan of the dun was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1988a, 174).
